Shirt-bosom retainer



No. 625,7!8. Patented May 23, I899.. R. CLUETT.

SHIRT BUSOM RETAINER.

Application filed Mar. 3, 1899.)

2 Sheets-Sheet I.

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B. CLUETT.

SHIRT BOSONI RETAINER.

(Application filed Mar. 3, 1899.) (No Model.) 2 sheetsfi-sheet 2.

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PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT OLUETT, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

SHlRT-BOSOM RETAINER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 625,718, dated May 23, 1899.

Application filed March 3, 1899- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT CLUETT, a citierence marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters and numerals refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a view in front elevation,showin g portions of a shirt,trousers, and trousers-supporting straps inposition as sumed in use upon the wearer and provided with my improved bosom-retainer. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of a part of the same, taken on the broken line 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan View of a retaining-tab detached. Figs. 4 and 5 are respectively plan views of fragmentary parts showing modifications.

The object of my invention is to provide means for retaining the bosom of a dress-shirt in place on the wearer and preventing one or both edges from being projected outside the vest.

When provided with my improved retainer, by which the edges of the bosom are connected with the trousers-supporting straps or suspenders, the bosom is held in place without imposing any uncomfortable strain upon the bosom.

The shirt 1 is shown with a bosom 2, having on each side edge a tab 3, adapted to be connected with a strap 4, one on each of the opposite sides of the bosom, extending over the shoulder portions 5 of the shirt and connected at their lower ends with the trousers 6 in the usual manner of connecting trouserssuspenders.

The straps 4 may be the ordinary suspenders or any form of strap connected with the trousers by which the straps will be held com-' paratively taut.

The tabs (shown in Fig. l) are duplex or double, comprising a front section a and a rear $eria1N0. 707,604. (No model.)

section b of approximately the same form. Each section is provided with one or more buttonholes 7, adapted to receive a detachable button or stud 8. I

The operation of connecting the tabs with the straps is a very simple one, it only being necessary to insert the straps, respectively,

between the sections of the duplex tabs and then insert a button-stud in the buttonholes to connect the sections together outside the strap. A slideway for the strap is thus formed on each side of the bosom between the stud and bosom edge.

I am thus able to provide an easily-operated and convenient means for retaining a bosom in place which will permit a natural and limited outward movement of the bosom by the ordinary movements of the body of the wearer.

The suspenders being nearer the sides of the body of the wearer than the bosom would not be so much affected by a stooping movement of the body as would the bosom and would to that extent limit the outward swell of the bosom and prevent its displacement.

An important feature of the device consists V in the natural comfortable relation of the parts in use, due to the fact that there is little or no tension between the bosom and suspenders except what momentarily occurs in restraining'the movements of the bosom in exceptional instances of rare occurrence.

The slight weight of the trousers serves to retain the strapsin position and put a restraint upon excessive movements of the bosom, and by forming a slideWay in the side connection between the trousers-supporting straps and the respective side edges of the bosom adapted to receive the straps and permit a free relative vertical movement of the straps and connections variations in strain upon or movement of the straps vertically do not communicate a vertical strain to the bosom.

In Fig. 4 the side connections comprise two pieces of tape 13 and 14, each secured at its ends to the side edge of the bosom, forming a closed slideway 15, through which the lower end of the corresponding trousers-supporting strap is inserted before it is connected with the trousers.

In Fig. 5 the tab connection 16 and strap 17 are each provided with buttonholes adapted to receive buttons or studs 18.

For the purpose of adjustment the tab is provided with a second set of buttonholes 19, farther removed from the bosom edge 20 than those containing the studs.

It is obvious thateither the tab connection or the strap may be provided with a button permanently fastened thereon and adapted to fit a corresponding hole in the cooperating tab or strap.

The tabs being connected at one edge only 1 along the edge of the bosom can be folded over onto the bosom and starched without starching the shirt-body. hen the tabs are so starched and ironed, they form a smooth slideway for the suspenders supporting the trousers,which facilitates the relative vertical movements of suspenders and tabs, since the slideways are Wholly contained Within the loose tab, which can be given a smooth polished surface like the bosom when laundered. When the slideways are formed Wholly within the tabs, connections between the tabs and shirt-body, which might chafe the person of the wearer, are avoided.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The herein-described improvement in shirt-bosom-retaining devices, comprising a pair of tabs respectively connected with the opposite side edges of the bosom, and each tab containing, Wholly within itself, a slideway for one of the trousers-supportin g straps, substantially as described.

2. Ashirt-bosom-retainingdevice,comprising a pair of duplex tabs, each secured at one end along one of the side edges of the bosom, the loose ends of the sections of each tab having registering openings therethrough, substantially as described.

3. A shirt-bosom-retaining device,comprising a pair of tabs, respectively connected with the opposite edges of the bosom and provided with a plurality of attaching-buttonholes lo= cated at difiering distances from the bosom edges,fordetachably securing the tabs to trou= sers-supporting straps, of differing widths, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this th day of February, 1899.

ROBERT CLUETT.

Witnesses:

GEO. A. MOSHER, FRANK O. CURTIS. 

